A 19-year-old woman this week became the youngest Japanese to scale the world's highest peak, a mountaineering official confirmed Thursday.

"Marin Minamiya successfully climbed Mount Everest Monday morning," Gyanendra Shrestha told Kyodo News.

Pasang Tshering Sherpa, her local trekking agent, said she made it to the top of the 8,848-meter peak as part of an 18-member team via the southeast ridge route in Nepal.